Nikita Nagornyy didn’t have very successful Worlds – he didn’t qualify to any event finals and then took the 10th place in AA after falling twice from the high bar. However, he has very difficult routines and...
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Elena Eremina who won the silver medal in the bars final in Montreal said she hopes her lucky streak continues and she will win gold in the beam final: “I hope that tomorrow there will be gold, I’ll try hard [laughs]...
Last night, Maria Paseka became the two-time World champion on vault. She is the second Russian woman to do that after Elena Zamolodchikova who won gold in 1999 and 2002. Paseka’s win was somewhat controversial as her form...
Maria Paseka will compete tonight in the vault final. She was first in qualifications but had a bad pattern going on this year: hitting her vaults in qualification and then making major mistakes in the final. This is what...
Elena Eremina told journalists what an AA medal at Worlds means to her: “I would call this day the happiest day of my life. But I’m sure it can get better, really. I’m very happy with my first medal at the...
Svetlana Khorkina, just as Valentina Rodionenko, was left unhappy with the judging in the WAG qualifications. However, she believes that if the judging will be fair in the all-around final, both Eremina and Melnikova have a...
Oksana Chusovitina, the newly elected athlete representative, is pretty unhappy with the new podium training format. She is one of the many athletes and coaches who complained that they were not given enough time to get...
Elena Eremina will compete in the all-around final at Worlds today. Eremina is a first-year senior and so far her senior career has been going pretty well: she was 4th in AA at Euros and won silver on bars there. At Worlds, she...
Oksana Chusovitina qualified to the vault final in Montreal from the 8th place. She had a lower difficulty than usual but managed to perform her vaults with great execution. Turns out that she lowered her difficulty due to an...
David Belyavskiy and Nikita Nagornyy will compete in the all-around final tonight. While for Beliavskiy, the qualification went very successfully, Nagornyy only qualified to the all-around final from the 11th place, missing on...